Improvement in tips for spring-bars of vehicles



E. '6. STEVENS. Tips for Spring Bars of Vehicles.

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Patnted Sept. 8, 1874.

I jzj R O T N E V N T.

WITNESSES.

. Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ELLSW ETH o. STEVENS, or SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPRdVEM ENT IN'TIPS FOR SPRING-BARS OF VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,812, dated September 8, 1874 application filed July 25,1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELLSWORTH G. STE- VENS, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Gap for Spring-Bar; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a top view of my device. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 2 is a detail.

The nature of my invention consists in a metallic ornamented cap for the end of a spring-bar used in carriages, which cap, as

Well as the end of the bar, receives through it the bolt which passes through the goose-neck or body-supporter, and thereby makes a substantial connection, as will be fully understood from the following description.

In the annexed drawings, A designates my improved cap, and B one end of a spring-bar. The mode of finishing the ends of spring-bars hitherto adopted is to ornament them by carving the Wood, which is expensive, and leaves the ends very Weak, so much so that very few spring-bars on carriages which have been used for any lengthof time are found to be perfect. I construct the cap A of metal, with a deep socket in it to receive the tapered end of the bar B. I-am thus able to furnish highly-ornamented caps which are not liable to be broken, and which are very cheap. The upper portion of the cap has an extension, b, formed on it, through which a screw is passed that secures the cap on the sprin g-bar. The rectangular portion or butt of the cap is perforated, and a hole, a, made through the bar B to receive the bolt which secures the neck 0 to the bar. Thus it will be seen that the cap affords a durable metallic bearing for said neck and its bolt.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A metallic cap, A, having a socket to receive the tapered end of the'spring-bars of carriages, substantially-asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ELLSWORTH O. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

A. D. WATROUS, SARA R; WRIGHT. 

